Tag: Para Equestrian Classification
Riding Forward
By Amber Heintzberger: Meet three para-dressage athletes who may help shape the future of the sport.
Reprinted from the September/October 2025 issue of USDF Connection
Carlisle Academy: A Leader in Inclusion
In this new series, we highlight the USEF's Para-Equestrian Dressage Centers of Excellence. Today we look at Carlisle Academy!
An Anchor in the Storm
Region 3 rider, Elizabeth W., shares the story of the PRE colt she bought and imported after an accident left her unable to continue her career as a hunter jumper, and the new goals she's chasing with him as an aspiring para-dressage team!
Baby Steps
I had gone on an inn-to-inn weeklong trail riding trek. On the second day, the horse I was riding tripped violently, falling on top of me, at the beach on the water's edge. I fell in the water, and I could feel it up to my ears while lying immobile with my head held still by another rider, waiting for the helicopter to airlift me to Galway University Hospital. Another French doctor rider, a cardiologist, also tended to me, and they saved my life.
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